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chicken-hearted

[chik-uhn-hahr-tid]

adjective

Informal.
  1. timid; fearful; cowardly.



chicken-hearted

adjective

  1. easily frightened; cowardly

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Word Forms

  • chicken-heartedly adverb
  • chicken-heartedness noun
  • ˌ󾱳-ˈ𲹰ٱ adverb
  • ˌ󾱳-ˈ𲹰ٱԱ noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of chicken-hearted1

An Americanism dating back to 1675–85
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Trump, the ultimate example of a loud-mouthed but chicken-hearted fascist, is almost comically unnerved by Zelenskyy, who has proven himself a brave man leading what is undeniably a courageous struggle by Ukrainians for their independence.

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For the Dodgers to uninvite the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence from their Pride Night is chicken-hearted and shameful.

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Kappe called Dasch "chicken-hearted," and said, " kind of German are you? We Germans have one mission, which is to kill all the Jews."

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"Now I have nothing to fear. And I am not a chicken-hearted type. I've become even more confident in myself. Had I been younger, I would have gone to the fighting with you," Oleksandr brags to some Ukrainian soldiers.

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Joe Ruby, who helped invigorate Saturday morning children’s television as the co-creator of Scooby-Doo, the long-running animated franchise about a group of teenage private eyes and their chicken-hearted, snack-guzzling Great Dane, died Aug. 26 at his home in Westlake Village, Calif. He was 87.

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